Instagram says it is reviewing whether its policies and practices are suppressing black voices in America. In a blog post Monday, the company’s CEO, Adam Mosseri, said that the platform has been “hearing concern about whether we suppress Black voices and whether our products and policies treat everyone equally”.
1/ We stand in solidarity with the Black community. But that’s not enough. Words are not enough. That’s why we’re committed to looking at the ways our policies, tools, and processes impact Black people and other underrepresented groups on Instagram.https://t.co/rVM3E0rFHA
Thirdly, there’s ‘Distribution’. Mosseri said that company will review how content is filtered on Explore and Hashtag pages going forward. That, he said, will enure more emphasis on content from black creators on the platform. The company will proactively work to get rid of any ‘shadowbanning’ if it exists on Instagram, he said.
